23 January 2025 – 29 January 2025
From our home in Varnava to Plaka, from Maria Callas’s voice to the tables of Athens: a winter week lived without a plan.
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For a long time, I had dreamed of renting an Airbnb in another country and living as though I belonged there. We finally did it in 2025, spending a week in our home in Varnava. With no particular aim and no fixed itinerary, we shopped at the market across the road, wandered through Plaka, went to the cinema and sometimes simply stayed at home. We were lucky: the weather was beautiful.
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The centre of our daily life and our home for a week lived like Athenians.
PublicThe museum where we rediscovered Callas’s voice, artistry and formidable character.
PublicA Michelin-starred chef’s-table experience where flowers and art became flavour.
PublicTraces of democracy and Athens’s layered history in the Stoa.
PublicA powerful theatre night watching Sweeney Todd in Greek.
PublicThe central market bringing together fish, meat, poultry and vegetable stalls.
PublicA memorable Glyfada table with a sea view, excellent service and food.
PublicA wide panorama of Athens from the hill reached by funicular.
PublicA collection that prompted reflection on ancient memory and the journeys of objects.
PublicAn unforgettable souvlaki stop in a tiny shop near Syntagma.
PublicA quiet cemetery filled with sculptures like an open-air gallery.
PublicA return to honeymoon memories over food and wine with an Acropolis view.
PublicThe Parthenon, ancient theatres and history rising above Athens.
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